MINING REGULATIONS UNDER “THE MINES ACT, 1877.”

Kumara Times, Issue 741, 13 February 1879, Page 4

MINING REGULATIONS UNDER “THE MINES ACT, 1877.”

Any person discovering new gold Working, find being desirous of obtaining an increased area thereon shall mark off a prospecting claim, as provided in Regulation 11, and shall iminediately report such discovery with full particulars to the Warden, and the grquiid so quirked off shjill be protected until the Warden shall have dually refused or granted the claim; but the Warden may, if he think fit, refrain from granting qr refusing such claim until the ground shall have been visited by himself or by anyone appointed by him. of all prospecting claims granted, with full particulars of locality, yield of gold, and description of workings, sball be posted by the Warden on the outside of his office for public information.

It shall not he lawful for the "Warden to grant a prospecting claim for any new discovery at a less distance than two miles from any previously existing workings in alluvial ground, nor to grqut a prospecting claim for any new discovery of a quartz reef at a less dis. tance thsyn half a mile from any previously existing quartz workings. Every prospecting claim shall, after being marked, ba held by one man re, maining on tlxe ground during working hours until the application is dealt witlq sffid, if gvayytecl, the claim must, unless by special permission of the Warden, be fully occupied within seven days fyo.uy the d-ite of grant. The Warden may, if lie think fit, grant a prospecting claim, to the actual discoverer of new gold workings conjointly with persons who. have assisted them in pyospecting either, with eontrh bntions or otherwise, or with other persons who may be nominated by th ; e actual although the saicl persons may not haye been on the gyound prior to the granting thereof. The Warden may, upon the’application of any persons forming a party of not jess than four, grant protection for not more than thyee months for q pyospecting area at a distance of pot les,s than two miles from any existing workings in alluvial ground, or pi the case of quartz workings () f not loss than half q ihile from any existing quartz workings: Provided in no case‘shall any such pyospecting area be granted within half a 'mile of any oilier such prospycting area. Provided further that such protection shall only continue m force luitil gold is struck, in which v aae the discovery shall be reported, or until the holders are required i>y the Warden to mark a pyospecting claim, in either of which cases a prospecting claim shall he marked and applied for. as provided in .Regulation 11. and Y"., and protection shall theruppu cease. ?ts to the remainder ot such prospecting area. It shall he lawful for the Warden to renew froyn time to time the protection for a prospecting area. Provided that snc.h renewed protection shall not be granted foy luor? than three mouths at , ¥.IV